The latest boxed-video game software and hardware charts have come through from Japan for the week of 12h June, 2023 to 18th June, 2023. There’s no change at the top this week for the critically acclaimed The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which sold an additional 31,151 retail copies this week. The No.1 games system remains the Nintendo Switch family of systems, shifting an additional 81,408 units. Here’s the best-sellers this week in the land of the rising sun.
Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
- [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo, 05/12/23) – 31,151 (1,672,070)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 7,489 (5,336,478)
- [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 5,753 (3,165,440)
- [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 04/29/22) – 5,550 (1,101,167 total)
- [PS5] Diablo IV (Blizzard Entertainment, 06/06/23) – 4,902 (total 29,277)
- [NSW] FRONT MISSION 1st: Remake (Rainy Frog, 06/15/23) – (New) – 4,891 remakes (4,891 total)
- [PS5] Street Fighter 6 (Capcom, 06/02/23) – 4,766 (33,630 total)
- [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet (The Pokemon Company, 11/18/22) – 4,362 (cumulative total of 5,053,556)
- [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 4,315 (cumulative total of 4,038,838)
- [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 4,309 (5,215,546 in total)
Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
- Switch OLED Model – 50,094 units (total of 4,834,791 units)
- PlayStation 5 – 46,830 units (cumulative total of 3,202,185 units)
- Switch – 17,173 units (cumulative total of 19,376,924 units)
- Switch Lite – 14,141 units (cumulative total of 5,348,708 units)
- Xbox Series S – 6,520 units (cumulative total of 259,511 units)
- Xbox Series X – 6,458 units (cumulative total of 201,510 units)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 4,421 units (cumulative total of 515,613 units)
- PlayStation 4 – 1,340 units (cumulative total of 7,876,948 units)
- New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 47 units (cumulative total of 1,191,781 units)
I think switch will be the second pillar of the new console that nintendo will announce. Everyone wants a beefy console and it can’t be mobile because of battery. Just look at the steam deck.
The steam deck is the Sega Game Gear, and the Atari Lynx of this generation. Many before have tried, yet the result is the same. Nintendo IPs are what drives their console sales. Oh, so great games selling consoles still holds. Except maybe for the PS5 that machine was selling with its snake oil lineup.
F=ma.